Top lawmakers expect to meet with the White House this week to start talks on setting fiscal 2020 spending levels and how to resolve the recent expiration of the debt limit suspension, CQ reported Friday.

“A lot of the emphasis was on spending caps, because we’re looking at disaster aid,” Shelby said of McConnell’s meeting. “We’ve been playing with that too long, and if we finish this, we’ve got to go to appropriations, which is much bigger.”

Without an agreement on fiscal 2020 levels by Oct. 1, discretionary spending would fall $125 billion next January.